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SOME ACCOUNT OF THE OBJECTS COMPRISED IN 

 LORD DERAMORE'S RECENT DONATION, PRIN- 

 CIPALLY ANTIQUARIAN. 



Part. I. — Antiquarian. 



By W. H. Patterson, M.R.LA. 



{Abstract.) 



The Society is much indebted to Lord Deramore for his 

 kindness in presenting to their Museum a large collection of 

 objects of scientific and antiquarian interest. It is quite fitting 

 that the antiquities, being mainly Irish, should find an abiding 

 place in an Irish Museum, and especially in one where Irish 

 antiquarian remains already form an important feature. Lord 

 Deramore's gift makes our series of ancient implements still 

 more complete, and in this way helps us to realise how these 

 primitive or barbaric people lived, and what means they had 

 for carrying on their occupations of war and the chase. 



The stone implements in the Deramore collection are not 

 numerous as compared with those of bronze. Two hammer 

 stones of a tough quartzite, with hollows in the sides for con- 

 venience in holding, represent this class of antiquities. One of 

 these is oval, measuring 6 inches by 4 inches ; the other 

 is almost round, measuring 3 inches across. 



And here I may say that, most unfortunately, none of the 

 antiquities, either stone or bronze, have any labels attached 

 (with one or two exceptions only), stating where or when they 

 were found. If collectors would only realize in time how the 

 value of a specimen of any kind is enhanced by the preserva- 

 tion of full particulars of place and date, and circumstances of 

 finding, their collections would be of much greater scientific 

 value than they often are. 



The Deramore antiquities, we must assume, are in the 

 main Irish, but we do not know any of the circumstances con- 

 nected with the discovery of the objects themselves. 



